The Right Brothers
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The Right Brothers are an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 conservative band, consisting of Aaron Sain and Frank Highland of Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...

. They received international attention in 2006 for their song "Bush Was Right", which expressed support for President George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

 and the Iraq War. The song received international press coverage, including in the United States, Britain, Poland, Switzerland, Argentina, and Denmark.

Career

In January 2004, RightMarch.com posted their first song, the country-flavored "Hey Hollywood," on their website, and in 72 hours it received 15,000 downloads. Within a few weeks the number was over 35,000. Later, a new song and video surfaced, the pro-life and pro-adoption "I Want To Live" and received over 1 million views.

Their song "Bush was Right" was a topic on MSNBC
MSNBC
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's Countdown with Keith Olbermann
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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and has been widely disparaged on cable news programs and liberal blogs and promoted on conservative blogs. RightMarch.com used it in an ad played on Fox News. Air America
Air America Radio
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 have played the song mostly in an attempt to mock the band and the song's assertion. A song from their album No Apologies is titled "I'm in Love with Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
Ann Hart Coulter is an American lawyer, conservative social and political commentator, author, and syndicated columnist. She frequently appears on television, radio, and as a speaker at public events and private events...

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Before releasing their latest CD, The Right Brothers compiled a special 10-song disc to honor American troops. Remember: A Military Appreciation Project, is reported to have been used at veterans events, including at Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery
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. In 2006, the band opened for Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity is an American radio and television host, author, and conservative political commentator. He is the host of The Sean Hannity Show, a nationally syndicated talk radio show that airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks. Hannity also hosts a cable news show, Hannity,...

 at a rally for Georgia
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 Lieutenant Governor candidate Ralph Reed
Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
Ralph Eugene Reed, Jr., is a conservative American political activist, best known as the first executive director of the Christian Coalition during the early 1990s. He sought the Republican nomination for the office of Lieutenant Governor of Georgia but lost the primary election on July 18, 2006,...

.

The Right Brothers have appeared on various venues, such as the Michael Medved
Michael Medved
Michael Medved is an American radio host, author, political commentator and film critic. His Seattle, Washington-based nationally syndicated talk show, The Michael Medved Show, airs throughout the U.S...

 Show, Maxim Radio
Maxim Radio
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, the Hugh Hewitt
Hugh Hewitt
Hugh Hewitt is an American radio talk show host with the Salem Radio Network, lawyer, academic, and author. An outspoken Republican, evangelical Christian, he comments on society, politics, and media bias in the United States. Hewitt is also a law professor at Chapman University School of Law.-...

 Show, the Lars Larson
Lars Larson
Lars Larson is a conservative U.S. talk radio show host based in Oregon. Larson hosts a national talk radio show, which as of 2009 is syndicated by Compass Media Networks...

 Show, C-SPAN
C-SPAN
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, Sound-off Connecticut with Jim Vicevich, the Kirby Wilbur
Kirby Wilbur
Kirby Wilbur is an American radio personality and conservative political activist who hosted a local conservative talk radio morning show on KVI-AM in Seattle, Washington. He occasionally hosts The Sean Hannity Show on a fill-in basis. He was elected the State Chairman of the Washington State...

 Show in Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington
Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...

, the Liddy & Hill Show in Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona
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, the Martha Zoller
Martha Zoller
Martha Mitchell Zoller is a columnist, author, and state-wide syndicated radio personality on North Georgia's News-Talk station FM 103.7 WXKT which serves the Gainesville metropolitan area, Maysville, and Athens....

 Show, RightMarch Radio , Take a Stand with Adam McManus and others. Their music also has been heard on the G. Gordon Liddy
G. Gordon Liddy
George Gordon Liddy was the chief operative for the White House Plumbers unit that existed from July–September 1971, during Richard Nixon's presidency. Separately, along with E. Howard Hunt, Liddy organized and directed the Watergate burglaries of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in...

 Show as well as National Public Radio.

Discography

  • For My Country (June 2004)
  • II (February 2005)
  • Remember: A Military Appreciation Project (June 2006)
  • No Apologies (December 5, 2006)

Singles

  • Hey Hollywood (January 2004)
  • I Want to Live
  • Bush Was Right (October 2005)
  • Dear Rosie (June 3, 2007)
  • One Life (January 4,2006)

External links

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